The Dancing is Working: Hell, if it’ll keep your mind of something that it shouldn’t be thinking about, I say dance your heart out sister!

Telepathic Aliens: Can I just say that I really liked the idea of these monsters. Their introduction is really well done, the exposition is delivered in a way that gives us just enough information to know they’re a threat without giving the whole game away.

Danny is Dead: Well, that was inevitable.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town: Nice entrance there Big Red, little overdone for my liking but nicely done all the same.

Santa Goes Badass: I liked Nick Frost’s Santa, for a (spoiler alert) dream construct, he’s not gonna put up with any crap.

A Second Sled: If I didn’t know any better, I’d be saying that Santa is a Time Lord.

Alien is Offensive: The Doctor’s never seen Alien? You’d think that someone would have shown it to him somewhere along the way.

Clara’s Dream: Yup, Danny’s there and giving her everything that she wants for Christmas, gotta be a dream.

Danny and Clara’s Last Christmas: Interesting how even in her dream Danny’s first instinct is to sacrifice himself to save Clara. Even Dream!Danny is still Danny.

We Are All Dead: I was wondering about that, and (for once) Moffat delivered a satisfying answer.

All the Touchy-Feely Stuff: The Doctor’s never been good with the touchy-feely stuff.

Missing the Obvious: And yet again, Moffat doesn’t use a cheap cop-out to explain away something that has been simmering away in the back of the viewers minds. I’m not going to say that Moffat’s writing has turned a corner with this episode, but I like how he’s not taking the easy way out and just hand-waving everything away.

Who You Gonna Call?: The guy with the sleigh that’s bigger on the inside of course!

Santa’s Midnight Ride: You know, I really love it when the show leaves the angst on the side and just has some fun.

Waking up from the Dream: Interesting to see what everyone’s lives are really like. The dream could be a reflection of what they would like to be, instead of what they are.